This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Randy Pausch, fully Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch
Don’t obsess over what people think. If nobody ever worried about what was in other people’s head, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and on our jobs.
People |
I question whether God himself would wish me to hide behind the principles of non-violence while innocent people were being slaughtered.
God | People | Principles | Question | God |
Judaism can be viewed as the evolution of a people in the grip of two toweringly great ideas. The first is the idea of One God - imageless, primordially creative, and utterly transcendent - who, nevertheless, cares for the creation. The second is the idea of human dignity: men and women become fully human only by responding to the moral intuitions divinely etched in their hearts.
Amos Oz, birth name Amos Klausner
When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.
Excitement | Hate | Peace | People |
Randy Pausch, fully Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re thee to stop the other people… Brick walls are there for reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something.
J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly
Almost all propaganda is designed to create fear. Heads of governments and their officials know that a frightened people is easier to govern, will forfeit rights it would otherwise defend, is less likely to demand a better life, and will agree to millions and millions being spent on “Defense.”
Better | Defense | Fear | Life | Life | People | Rights | Will | Propaganda |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, fully Sir or Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
A study of comparative religion gives insight into the values of the various faiths, values which transcend different symbols and creeds and in transcending penetrate to the depths of the spiritual consciousness where the symbols and formulas shrink into insignificance.
Consciousness | Insight | Insignificance | Religion | Study |
Robert Edward Rubin, aka Eddy Rubin
The only place people find fulfillment is within themselves. And too often, that is the last place they look.
Fulfillment | People |
Red Jacket, aka Sagoyewatha NULL
You say that you are sent to instruct us how to worship the Great Spirit agreeably to His mind; and, if we do not take hold of the religion which you white people teach, we shall be unhappy hereafter. You say that you are right and we are lost. How do we know this to be true? We understand that your religion is written in a book. If it was intended for us, as well as you, whey has not the Great Spirit given to tus, and not only to us, but what did He not give to our forefathers the knowledge of that book, with the means of understanding it rightly? We only know what you tell us about it. How shall we know when to believe, being so often deceived by the white people? Brother, you say there is but one way to worship and serve the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it? Why not all agreed, as you can all read the book?
Knowledge | Means | Mind | People | Religion | Right | Spirit | Teach | Understanding | Worship | Understand |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair “Will” Rogers
A king can stand people’s fighting, but he can’t last long if people start thinking.
In God’s Kingdom the corrupting principles of domination and subjugation will be overcome. People will no longer model social or religious relationships; or even relationships to God after the sort of power that reduces others to servility. Rather they will discover a new kind of power, a power exercised through service, which empowers the disinherited and brings all to a new relationship of mutual enhancement.
God | Model | People | Power | Principles | Relationship | Service | Will | God |
Felix Rohatyn, fully Felix George Rohatyn
Money is the standard now. It’s the new religion. We have two religions in this country, fundamentalism and money, and I don’t know which is worse. I don’t see the death of greed. I see people worried that they may have come along a couple of years too late.